Trump: Netanyahu, Gantz ’both good people’ * Analysis: PM targets Bennett, Shaked * Horovitz: The simple question * PM: Sovereignty for settleme nts * Oman FM talks to ToI

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Sunday, April 7, 2019 [Trump: Netanyahu and Gantz are both ‘good people,’ race will be close]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( [At Republican Jewish Coalition meet in Las Vegas, president touts Golan recognition, asks to give peace bid with Palestinians a chance]( [Trump says he made snap decision on Golan after history crash course]( By [TOI staff]( [Trump tells US Jews that Netanyahu is ‘your prime minister’]( By [TOI staff and AP]( Analysis [Shalom Yerushalmi]( [Netanyahu’s final campaign focus: An effort to decimate Bennett and Shaked]( [Hoping to boost Likud and defeat his family’s long-time nemeses, PM is concentrating on wooing New Right voters, including with the promise of sovereignty over settlements]( [Likud cancels right-wing rally in Jerusalem over fears of poor turnout]( By [Raoul Wootliff]( [After allies call foul, PM doubles down on warning Likud could lose power]( By [Alexander Fulbright]( [Bennett says Netanyahu seeking to ‘take down’ other right-wing parties]( By [Alexander Fulbright]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [The simple, agonizing question for voters Tuesday: Is Netanyahu good for Israel?]( [He’s kept the country safe and bolstered its alliances; he’s dividing us and battering our democracy]( [Israel media review / Bloc-buster: 7 things to know for April 7]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( [Senator proposes US enter defense pact with Israel]( By [AP and TOI staff]( Countdown to April 9 [Netanyahu: If I’m re-elected, I’ll extend sovereignty to West Bank settlements]( By [TOI staff]( [PM says ‘I am going to apply Israeli sovereignty’ and ‘I don’t distinguish between settlement blocs and isolated settlements’; rules out Palestinian state as existential danger]( [Top PLO official condemns PM’s campaign vow to apply sovereignty to settlements]( By [TOI staff]( [Turkey slams Netanyahu’s ‘irresponsible’ settlement annexation remarks]( By [AFP]( Interview [Adam Rasgon]( [Omani FM to Times of Israel: US peace plan will fail without a Palestinian state]( [In his first-ever interview with an Israeli publication, Yusuf bin Alawi says the Arab states must make Israel ‘not feel that it has enemies in the region’]( [Oman foreign minister: Arabs need to assure Israel it is not under threat]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [Abbas: Good luck to Israelis on election day]( By [Adam Rasgon]( [Likud minister says Israeli left ‘suckled on the legacy of Stalin, Lenin’]( By [TOI staff]( A time to heel [Whisky-sipping Feiglin slaps comedian interviewer’s feet]( By [TOI staff]( [Days before election, Zehut party leader gives strange interview to comic Dudu Bauchner, who links him to Nazi Germany, calls him ‘guru of the stoned’]( [Shaked, Bennett croon over ‘failed romance’ between IDF, High Court]( By [TOI staff]( [Bearing a grudge / Big ‘Bibi bear’ doll placed in Tel Aviv plaza in protest of Netanyahu]( By [TOI staff]( Live updates [PA official: Netanyahu will face a ‘real problem’ if he annexes settlements]( By [TOI staff]( [FM Riyad al-Malki says Palestinians will resist any move to apply Israeli sovereignty to West Bank settlements following PM’s campaign promise]( [After entering moon’s orbit, Beresheet starts maneuvering for landing]( By [TOI staff and Melanie Lidman]( [Israeli spacecraft executes burn to dramatically shorten its orbit, 4 days before attempting to end its long journey at Sea of Serenity]( Top Ops [Haviva Ner-David]( [Three women, one scream]( [An unconventional pre-Passover, pre-Election Day outing that I believe was healing for me, my cohort, and the universe]( [Avram Mlotek]( [I’m an Orthodox rabbi and I plan to officiate LGBTQ weddings]( [We must welcome couples who choose to live Jewish lives, build a Jewish home and raise Jewish children]( [Exposé shows UK Labour has failed to punish members for vile anti-Semitic taunts]( By [Michael Bachner]( [Report details cases in which little to no action was taken against members who blamed 9/11 on Jews and railed against Jewish MPs; 863 complaints have yielded just 29 expulsions]( #Lifegoals [Israeli goalie recognized as world’s oldest pro soccer player]( By [TOI staff]( [Maccabi Or Yehuda’s Isaak Hayik, 73, sets new Guinness World Record]( More Headlines [Hamas prisoners launch hunger strike after Israel jams cell signal]( By [TOI staff]( [Erdan: ‘We hope hunger strike prisoners break before they flood the hospitals’]( By [TOI staff]( [Bodies mistakenly thought to have been IDF soldiers flown to Israel last year]( By [TOI staff]( [Elbit to buy US night vision firm for $350 million in bid to boost US activities]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Trump to make case for Jewish voters to back 2020 bid]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [Here’s why Jewish organizations are focusing on education rather than continuity]( By [Ben Sales]( [Iran threatens to respond in kind if US labels Revolutionary Guard terrorists]( By [TOI staff and AFP]( [Mummified mice, cats uncovered in ancient Egyptian tomb]( By [AFP]( [Estonian party seals deal to form government with far-right]( By [AFP]( [After O’Rourke comments, White House says Democrats don’t condemn anti-Semitism]( By [AP]( [NY measles outbreak spotlights religious exemptions from vaccine]( By [Catherine TRIOMPHE]( [Grand theft avocado / Man nabbed with 180 kilos of stolen avocados]( By [TOI staff]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved